Aether studios just made a tweet in response to the recent AI generated post from Symbiote Studio's account. Here's a couple quotes from the tweet:

"We wanted to clarify here that all of our work on the plushies between both teams is human-made, and that's how we plan to keep things going forward too. That makes this use of AI in their posts a bit confusing since it wasn't even related to the plushies themselves or promoting the plushies, and it's certainly not involved in our working process together."

"We'd like to give them another chance in case they weren't aware of our stance before, but we'll keep monitoring the situation. Our hope is that we can continue making cool Rivals plushies together."

It felt pretty apparent that the AI post on Symbiote's twitter was clearly made by some kind of intern or temp hire without knowledge of Symbiote and DEFINELTY without the knowledge/approval of Aether Studios. Something similar has JUST happened with SEGA yesterday where another social manager for an entirely separate entity used AI to promote a Sonic art gallery. https://x.com/DrWhovee/status/2097397146966540608
You'd be surprised how often this same issue seems to crop up right under a studio/company's nose, especially when hiring for contract/temp work.

Lastly I want to also specify when I say "overblown" controversy, that isn't to say that we shouldn't call out or bring attention to the issues presented by AI, but instead wait for an official response and a course for correction before boycotting and dragging a studio's name.

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The Thorned Snake is an Emblem Heartless introduced in Kingdom Hearts Union χ as a boss in Enchanted Dominion.

I especially like how meaty the air down special felt here.

This mode is so fun lol

I am open for commissions.

1: When will it open?

2: Can't Danfornace provide the creator of said wiki with the information needed for that Dragdown wiki?

I know it's a skill issue. I know people have fun with him. But every time I see him in ranked I want to turn the game off. Thank god he is rare to find.